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“We need to do something different tomorrow than we did today. We can’t wait for other people to do it for us. We need to own this.” - Sallie Krawcheck OK, we all know that the Presidential election this year really shook things up. As the dust begins to…

A lot of us are in a lot of pain this week, shock and confusion, and struggling to process it all. But we know we have to look to the future. In her concession speech on Wednesday Hillary Clinton (who still made a lot of history this election) said "…

Back in October, I read M Train by Patti Smith. I picked it up in the airport. I just moved to New York in May, and I commute an hour and a half to work in Brooklyn now. I thought no one could teach me how to be a writer…

Nothing could have prepared us for the results of this election. If you were anything like me that night, anxiety was there, but you had a feeling everything would work out in the end, that there were enough of us out there to get us a victory. I spent the…

First Lady Michelle Obama shared her perspective on Donald Trump's 2005 comments in a campaign stop in New Hampshire, where she is stumping for the Hillary Clinton campaign. In light of more recent reports from other women who say Donald Trump inappropriately touched them, Michelle Obama described why this recent…

Hillary Clinton’s debate strategy can be summed up by a short excerpt from Sun-tzu’s The Art of War: If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Clinton certainly managed to do that. Post-debate, much has been made of Trump’s agitated demeanor, his repeated interruptions, and his…

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